Dreams

Jan 27 2025

• Snippet: I recall walking along a path in a game world and trying to upgrade the tiles upon it as I went, somewhat similar to Loop Hero but taking place in more of a garden or woodland setting, and I’m not sure that the path actually looped. However I discovered rather quickly that the path could not be upgraded and was not spawning any monsters as well because I had apparently neglected to talk to the NPC on the starting square before I had set out, so the game was stuck in a half-loaded state. I continued walking along anyway as I was searching for something.

Jan 28 2025

• Snippet: I was stuck on a runaway train that would not stop at any station because its station counter number was in the negatives and incrementing backwards, so it didn’t recognize the positive station numbers that it was passing. The train was not moving very fast, and there were still several stations before the end of the line where I felt it might risk crashing into a barrier. There was no one else on board besides me, and I called someone on my phone to let them know that I was stuck on the train, hoping to get help from them. However, while on the phone call, I also managed to figure out how to trick the train’s code to temporarily stop at the next station, however I didn’t get off the train in time before the doors closed and the train continued onwards, as I was trying to pick up the various bags and containers that I had carried onto the train so that I wouldn’t leave anything behind. The same trick worked again for the next station though so I got off there before the empty train automatically continued on its way.
• Snippet: I was in an underground carpark with some friends and trying to stay out of sight of other people as I approached cars by their front left door, where there was an interaction allowing me to inspect and steal them if I wanted. It only worked for that door though, and on more than one occasion I wished that I had the ability to do the same from the front right door as well.

Jan 29 2025

• I stole a couple of items, including rolled-up posters and potato chip bags, from the outside of some demihuman shop in a fantasy game city while invisible. I put them down against a wall some distance away from the shop itself as I had too many items to bring back with me in one trip, and I planned to come back to retrieve them once I deposited the rest of my items at my base.
• On the way back, I met Zixiang, Allen, and a couple of other friends at a traffic light where they were all waiting for the crossing light to turn green. They were on their way to set up a pop-up shop near where I had left those other items, and for a moment I thought they had found my stash, even though I had left it in a rather open spot where anyone in theory could have walked by the items and taken them if they were unscrupulous about it. But I found out that it was their own stuff.
• After retrieving my items, I went in to their shop, which was a stone dome with horizontal slits cut in various places to allow light in, wearing a makeshift disguise. I was with another friend, possibly Andy from Rosyth, who was also wearing a very flimsy disguise. We sat down at a counter and he asked one of our friends for a tablet that had the item and price list on it. The friend behind the counter obliged, but he could obviously see past Andy‘s disguise, mentioning how big the outfit was and pointing out how there were cracks between some of the disguise pieces and Andy‘s actual face.
• I wasn’t sure if he realized who I was so I also revealed myself by mentioning a few things that they knew that only I could know. After all, we weren’t specifically trying to hide our identities from them, we were just either trying to hide our identities from the other people in the shop in general, or trying to make sure we were treated as regular customers and didn’t get special treatment.

Jan 30 2025

• There was a skill that I couldn’t or wouldn’t use, either because I was sick or because it would hurt someone too much. To get around this, I had to pretend that my left leg was injured and I was limping on it, but was trying my best to hide that limp anyway in order to make the story realistic.
• This meant that I had to get help from others to do some things, like in one situation Nomakk wanted some of his mods to change an announcement sign that was on top of a light post to signify that there was a van nearby where people could come and play with a refugee girl who was the younger sister of someone else in our guild and who was rescued from an evil mastermind.
• Although I had helped him negotiate part of what the message would say, I didn’t want to climb up the ladder and actually put the sign on. castleofanime, who was with me, tried to change the sign but he actually lacked the stationery backing for the sign that we were going to use, which apparently only I could trigger because I was the only one that owned it, so in the end I had to do so anyway, just very slowly and gingerly.
• In another situation, I had to be driven around in a car instead of the one driving it, though the main effect of that was that we were going really slow because the person driving it was not good at parking, so we had to reset the car and retry entering a small carwash garage several times at first, and then later on had to reset the car and retry entering a small carpark outside a shopping mall where we were going to pick Dad and Jon up from. I was seated in the backseat both times, but came out of the car to help Dad and Jon pack away groceries in the latter case before we all entered the car again.
• Later on, there was a story where we were fighting a losing battle against some AI or alien power that was taking over the game world slowly, and I remember a top-down section where we were fighting against them with lasers and swarms of ships, and another part where there was a tactical map where we had a Heroes of Might and Magic 3 style battle against the computer, both of us with an identical army makeup including black dragons, manticores, and some other ranged creatures. However, the enemy still had the numbers advantage as they just had more of each type of creature.
• We did regenerate the map a few times until we found a map that was just a horizontal cavern with a small chokepoint in the middle, and tried to use that as a tactical advantage to isolate and focus fire the enemy troops, which did work to some extent. The enemy overlord then told us try to come to its main castle and fight them there as that would surely spell doom for us.
• Lastly, though it was all somehow connected, there was a weird snippet where a powerful robot man wanted to marry one of the main female characters in the dream, and could hear and zone in to her voice wherever she was when she spoke. A couple of her female friends, realizing this, tried to run interference by putting on a wig, curling up under the blankets of their beds in different houses, and then playing a recording of the girl’s voice, which caused the man to run over and break down their wall to gain entry and look for the girl in question. Each time he found the wrong girl instead and left in disappointment, which gave the real girl some more time to do whatever she needed to do. Eventually though she acquiesed and visited his house, which had a spaceport with a futuristic car in it.

Jan 31 2025

• My dream took place in a city where there were lots of road junctions and pillars and buildings under construction. Each one of the buildings and junctions came with two or three timed tasks to complete, and most of the players and adventurers in the city were beholden to the city to do the tasks at a particular location everytime they came back to town and were between quests, in order to heal up or earn some currency or something.
• However, I realized that this was inefficient, and it was far better to take several quests at once and save some of them up between rounds, doing the ones that needed to be done now and leaving the others for later when their reward was actually needed. Doing it this way meant that the economic power in the city gradually transferred from the building owners into the players’ hands.
• Editor: I was feeling sick and this dream tied into that, and continued despite me waking up and then falling asleep again several times. There were easily over a dozen of these delayed buildings and junctions that I visited, and the “rewards” for doing these quests tied in to overcoming how feverish I was feeling as well as slight breathing issues that I was having.

Feb 01 2025

• Snippet: My dream consisted of chains of keywords that I had to speak in order to unlock the ability to list my sicknesses. Listing the sicknesses was apparently the best way to cure them, with each chain of words pairing up with each sickness and providing a shelter where I could keep warm and protect myself against that specific sickness. At least one of the words, which was represented by floating glyphs, was “reversed” though, which prevented me from being able to complete that keyword chain as the letters were not real.

Feb 02 2025

• Snippet: I was watching a game show where there was a floating pyramid that burst into six pieces. Each piece had a description on it consisting of a riddle, giving clues as to the order the pieces needed to be arranged in, like “this piece goes before that one piece but after that other piece” and so on. The contestant on the show then had sixty seconds to arrange all 6 pieces in the right order to win a prize.